 Tina Brown |
Tina Brown and the New York Times have parted company. The Times sold its 30 percent stake in Brown’s Women in the World Media, which produces the Women in the World Summit events, for “a nominal amount” last year, according to a disclosure filed Tuesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Brown, who has been editor-in-chief of both the New Yorker and Vanity Fair, formed Women in the World in 2010, and entered into a multiyear agreement with the Times in December 2014 to collaborate on the production of the series. Brown and her company moved into the Times office building in 2015. According to a report in the Hollywood Reporter, it is unclear when her team moved out. A dedicated Women in the World website is still up and running, but has no Times branding. The ninth annual Women in the World Summit is scheduled for April 12-14.
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Roku has rejected calls from antigun activists to stop offering NRA TV, which the Roku website calls “your source for the world's most comprehensive video coverage of Second Amendment issues, events and culture.” The company said in a statement that though it feels “deep sadness” over the shooting at Margery Stoneman High School that took the lives of 17 people, “we do not curate or censor based on viewpoint." While such businesses as Hertz, MetLife, Enterprise and United Airlines have ended their partnerships with the NRA, Roku, along with companies including Amazon, Apple and FedEx, have not done so. Roku says that it has no commercial relationship with the NRA, noting that NRA TV is available to consumers for free and carries no advertising. It also said that it welcomes "other important groups to use our platform to share their messages too,"
 Ken Kurson |
Modern Consensus, a news site offering insight and analysis into the cryptocurrency markets and blockchain technologies, has been launched by Ken Kurson, former editor-in-chief of the New York Observer. The site will offer what Kurson calls “intelligent, focused, and engaging reporting of the blockchain and cryptocurrency space – not just the technology but the people behind the technology.” Its name is taken from the consensus mechanism that many blockchains use to verify transactions. Lawrence Lewitinn, who recently served as the Observer’s deputy editor and business & technology senior editor, will serve as editor-in-chief of the site. Joining Kurson and Lewitinn are general manager Kevin Sanders, who will handle all business elements of the site, and contributing reporter Dylan Love, who was previously a tech reporter for International Business Times, The Daily Dot, and Business Insider.
Michael Kaminer, who was responsible for the Observer’s “Power List” for the past 13 years, has cut ties with the publication... The New York Times Company continues the march toward its goal of 15 million subscribers by the end of 2027... The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is providing more than $6 million in funding to eight organizations working to address the challenges local news and information environments face along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Conservative outlets Fox News, Newsmax and the Daily Caller are holding back from signing Pete Hegseth’s edict restricting press access in the Pentagon... CBS News sees the first executive departure of the Bari Weiss era as head of standards and practices Claudia Milne exits... Indiana University shuts down the print version of The Indiana Daily Student.
Rothschild family plans to unload 26.7 percent stake in The Economist... STAT, a digital media company that focuses the life sciences, brings back Damian Garde, who anchored its biotech newsletter and podcast from 2016 to 2024... High Times officially resumes print publication (following its 2024 shutdown) with the release of a limited-edition, collectible 50th anniversary issue. 
CBS News is set to hand over its reins to The Free Press co-founder Bari Weiss as Paramount acquires her site for $155M... C-SPAN comes on board as an official media partner of the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission, which is charged by Congress to lead the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence... A new Gallup survey says that the level of trust that US audiences have in the media has hit a new low.
Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison has named Kenneth Weinstein, former head of the conservative Hudson Institute, as ombudsman for CBS News.
